It has been
no secret that the Blazing Games site is going away in April. This may lead to
the question about what I am going to do with this blog after the site shuts
down? I have been thinking about dropping this blog keeping only my Homebrew Gamejam
blog but I am slowly porting the Flash and Java games from BlazingGames into
HTML5 and hosting the new versions on Spelchan.com. There are a lot of games
that I had created on BlazingGames so this process will take a very long time
so it makes sense to continue to keep this blog running. Besides, I have to
finish posting the chapters from my Making HTML5 Games using Animate eBook.
I will
continue posting the sections of the book each fortnight with updates on game
ports made between the chapters. In addition to Spelchan.com, I also have my
2600Dragons.com and will soon have TarotRevealed.com which is where I plan on
hosting my tarot games. There are a lot of pages that make up the site as well
as a lot of features that I would like to add to the site so this is going to
be a process that will take a fair amount of time. I am going to spread this
work out adding new layouts or features every month with the site being updated
on the 15th of each month.
Right now I
am running into some issues setting up the site (adding it to my hosting is
still pending) but hopefully the site will show up shortly and I will be able
to have the first version of the site ready by the 15th of this
month.
I would
like to be porting games much quicker than I currently am but at the moment am
working on my Masters degree so my spare time is very little. The few hours a
week that I allocate to working on both blogs, porting games, and developing my
emulator should probably be used for study but I consider this my time so try
to allocate some time for these projects. Naively I was hoping to get ahead of
the release schedule so that I wouldn’t need to worry about hitting release
dates but that has not been the case. My summer schedule is lighter but as we
are expected to work on our thesis at that time I suspect that my tune situation
will be just as bad in the summer. The Coffee Quest engine isn’t too bad so I
should have no problem releasing content for that series but I was really hoping
to do my revamped One of those Weeks and Ultimate Retro Project games.
Needless to
say, my focus for the larger project will be Coffee Quest and once that project is done I will have to
make a decision between Ultimate Retro Project and One of those Weeks. What I
want to do with OotW is very time consuming but I should be finished my Masters
degree so unless I decide to go for a PHD I should have more spare time. More
on this once I have finished posting the next chapter of the eBook, which will
be starting next fortnight.
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